To the poster above!! Awesome rockscaping man! Looks pretty natural to me! I'm a big fan of the whole sand substrate, just feel like it looks more natural than gravel. But that's just me.

For the first pic, I reckon an 8 easily. Second.. 7.5?? Clean the glass lol! As for suggestions on how to improve, I wouldn't pretend to tell you what to do, I'm new to this! But I'm sure someone will come along with something smart to say!

No joke, a customer at my LFS has two salmon catfish in his garage pool. Wtf??? Rate THAT tank!

This one's mine. Only had it about 5 days. Was a complete freebie from a family member (except for the substrate, I replaced theirs and bought my own sand for my Africans). I know it's pitiful compared to all the previous tanks in this thread (all of them are utterly amazing!!), and I'm not even expecting a score above a 5 (from what I've gathered, things like ornaments and deliberate caves and fake backgrounds are a no-no). But I'm learning and assure you that in a few weeks time when I make the 40 min trip to the only decent cichlid aquarium in the area, I'll totally rescape it and it'll look completely diff!! Atm only have 9 cichlids, (3 johanni's, 2 electric blue, 1 electric yellow, 1 hongi and 1 unknown potential juvenile hongi). Anyway so don't hate on my rookie tank pls

edit: oh, and the reason my water looks so cloudy is cause it was a rush job photo taken only 10 mins after I'd completed filling it with water for the first time! Took the pic to send to my dad who's been into cichlids for a while! Water is much much clearer now!

thanks alot Ptyochromis I did change it again thou cause I got those f1 rusty's from alpine freak on the trading post they all came alive and are doing well after that tramatic 4 day shipping. I liked all the little holes I had in there to thanks